In an Instagram post featuring the Material Girl with Camila Cabello, who won the night’s Video of the Year award, the singer claimed it was all a big misunderstanding — she never intended to honor the Queen of Soul in the first place.

Here’s the key part of the post, which Madonna shared on Tuesday.

And just to clarify: I was asked to present video of the year by MTV! And then they asked me to share any anecdotes I had in my career connected to Aretha Franklin! I shared a part of my journey and thanked Aretha for inspiring me along the way.

I did not intend to do a tribute to her! That would be impossible in 2 minutes with all the noise and tinsel of an award show. I could never do her justice in this context or environment.

Madonna then blamed the reaction to her self-involved speech to, well, everyone else.

“Unfortunately most people have short attention spans, and are so quick to judge,” she wrote, before paying a cursory tribute to Franklin. “I love Aretha! R.E.S.P.E.C.T. 🙏🏼.”

Sire Records co-founder <a href="https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/how-i-met-madonna-by-seymour-stein-the-man-who-signed-her-book-excerpt-1202846755/" target="_blank">Seymour Stein</a> loved&nbsp;Madonna's demo single, "Everybody," so much that he agreed to give her a record deal while he was in the hospital recovering from a heart condition.&nbsp;